Posted on 10/13/2020 6:19:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
For students of ancient civilizations, one of the curious facts is that the site of Troy (Hisarlik in western Turkey), whose walls Homer describes as overlooking the sea, is now 6.5 kilometers inland at the closest point to the Aegean. Millions of modern-day tourists have visited that inland site since Schliemann excavated it in the 19th century. Portions of the walls and towers are clearly visible — but the Aegean is nowhere in sight.
Why?
Because the world's oceans and seas were different at the time of the Trojan War that Homer celebrated in the Iliad. The seas were higher than they are today because the Earth's climate was warmer, and less of the earth's water was trapped in the polar regions. The seas were higher than the "catastrophic" levels predicted by climate alarmists by the end of this century.
For ancient peoples, this was no catastrophe. If anything, the early Mediterranean peoples benefited from the heat. The era that Homer recorded in the Iliad, and the millennia before, was a time of dramatic expansion of civilization, technology, and exploration. Parties of Greeks and Phoenicians set forth in all directions, intent on trade and colonization. Colonies were established throughout the Mediterranean and along the coast of modern-day Turkey and the Black Sea, and trading parties sailed as far as Ireland and southern England, and perhaps beyond, carrying trade goods from the eastern Mediterranean to the rest of the world.
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Well, Duh!
“Well, Duh!”
....Or is it D’oh!
It is difficult to imagine the degree of ignorance in so may today.
From Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, under heading Sorrento.
“From there one goes to Pozzuoli, which is called Sorrento the Great, built by Zur, son of Hadadezer, when he fed in fear of David the King. The sea has risen and covered the city from its two sides, and at the present day one can still see the markets and towers which stood in the midst of the city.
A spring issues forth from beneath the ground containing the oil which is called petroleum. People collect it from the surface of the water and use it medicinally. There are also hot water springs to the number of about twenty, which issue from the ground and are situated near the sea, and every man who has any disease can go and bathe in them and get cured....”
Yep
“ The seas were higher than they are today because the Earth’s climate was warmer...”
Probably not. The coastlines of the eastern Mediterranean have changed a lot due to tectonics. Coastlines along the Israeli coasts have encroached on settlements there. How could the sea go down a few hundred mile from where it’s raising?
But think of the job opportunities. Unskilled laborers can be put to work building dikes and cultivating warm climate crops such as...ahem...cotton and sugar cane.
Excellent article! My sons went to Thermopylae in Greece to visit the 300 Spartans fight against the Persians. They were shocked by the distance between the Pass of Thermopylae and the Ocean. It is now miles wide. Historical accounts showed it as less than 400 meters. This article answers the problem! Since ancient times, oceans levels have reduced because of Global Cooling!
Not a few hundred miles. A few feet which in some areas, like Thermopylae in Greece, amount to a mile or so
Glad I survived the Global Ice age of the 70s!
If it wasn’t for Man Made Global Warming caused by Pollution, we would still be stuck i9n the Ice Age of the 1970’s that was Caused by Pollution.
All those earthquakes and volcanoes are telling us something. Still, that's not going to calm The GrettaTm
The same holds true for all western Turkey.
The Biblical Ephesus once was a port city. Standing at the top of the amphitheater today, you can’t identify where the Mediterranean is located.
But then remember, the Greeks did not offer sacrifices to Poseidon so after they destroyed Troy, Poseidon destroyed the Greek counter fortifications with a giant wave.
Sorry but this article is WRONG. The Mediterranean Sea, formerly the Tethys Ocean, is shrinking and the land around it rising due to tectonic forces. The African continental plate is colliding with the European plate, forcing shorelines from Troy to the old Roman port of Ostia up and
periodically closing the Strait of Gibraltar. It is building mountain ranges like the Alps into the next Himalayas (built by the collision of India and Asia).
8 Posts before the inevitable Homer Simpson post. Surprised it took so long.
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